Later, the news came through that the driver was Arab, and the Israeli media started speculating that this might have been a deliberate terrorist attack. The Arabs have used this method before, especially in Jerusalem.

The thought that it might have been a terrorist attack was a source of great joy to the usual suspects, as you can imagine:

Oh Allah, please be true!10 dead soldiers and dozens of injured in an attack in occupied Haifa

Just one small problem.

As it turned out, all of the dead were Arabs. And the truck itself was unsafe..the truck was overloaded, in poor condition and its brakes went out while driving down a steep hill.

The three page thread of hate-filled comments abruptly stopped once that news became public.

Tragically, most of the victims were in their late teens and early twenties,just waiting for a red light to change.

The fact that Arabs would glory in what they thought was the death of Jews is nothing new. During the Second Intifada, it was routine to hear Arabs firing guns in the air and ululating in celebration after a successful homicide bombing, especially in Jerusalem - while members of ZAKA within hearing range were still gathering up body parts into plastic bags for burial and loading surviving victims into ambulances.

It says something about the Israelis that after those kind of incidents, they refrained from driving out the people who refer to themselves as Palestinians entirely.

It also says something about the Palestinians, and what it says is the root of the entire Arab Israeli conflict. Swapping some land for a few worthless pieces of paper isn;t going to change that kind of psychotic hatred.